Che-Wei Chen (b. 1986, Yilan, Taiwan) holds an MFA from the Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan. Chen’s work encompasses photography, film, text, sound and object. Interweaving narrative and memory, time and space, reality and fiction, history and the present, his practice crosses boundaries in an effort to explore and interrogate the complexities of human existence. He has participated in international residencies in Melbourne (2016), Berlin (2015), Istanbul (2013) and Busan (2011). He has held solo exhibitions at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2016), Howl Space, Tainan (2013) and Nanhai Gallery, Taipei (2011). He currently works and lives in Taipei.

The Childhood Series was presented by Chen in 2015 during his artist residency at Berlin, German. Continuing his creational realization of describing stories among different mediums, this series also contains images, photograph, audios and texts, etc. Through these seemingly very individual stories and images, those long forgotten historical memories as well as political reality behind these stories are able to be released and awaked; Chen intends to create possible conversations in-between a ...

HOWL in Howl Space series began in 2013. Chen chose Howl Space, an art space at Tainan, and the prose poem shared the same name Howl by American poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) as inspirational text. The multi-layered complicated descriptions call out different times and cultural meanings. It further discusses and projects some issues and circumstances of Taiwan in contemporary era, such as authority structure, gender politics, and marginal groups, etc. Chen projects collective sub-consciousn ...